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THE DALTON ARGUS.
Entered at the Postottice in Dalton, Ga., as
■econd-class matter, and issued every Saturday
by A. H. Shaver. x
OFFICIAL OI.’GAN OF THE COI MY.
A. 11. shavi;iv,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
BATTRHAY, JANUARY 2«ih. IM»4
Rome SAYS she’s already capture!
the whole cotton factory bakery.
Next to Sibley and Bland, Bryan
seems to he the biggest ass in Congress
And that's saying a good deal.
It is gratifying to see that the “sore
head” organs have quit abusing President
Cleveland, and are giving the jimcrow
congressmen their just deserts.
Let that whitecap correspondence be
tween the Redds, the Morrisons and the
Staffords break right short off. It is
getting m-o-n-o-t-o n-o-u-s. We do not
need it.
By all means let ns use every availa
ble method to locate industries in Dalton.
Industries bring workmen and make
pay-rolls, and workmen and pay-rolls
make cities.
Editor Grubb, of the Darien Gazette,
truthfully declares: “Governor Northen
has taken the contract to build up Geor
gia, and that means that Georgia is going
to be built up.”
Did you read Watson’s card ? Tommy’s
feelings are getting very tender “all of a
sudden.” Tommy begs for consideration
of his feelings, and in the same breath
abuses everybody else on earth. Pitiable
spectacle!
A Kentucky preacher is in the habit
of standing on his head and turning som
ersaults while preaching. He would
make a good running mate for “Darling
Willie” and the Pollard.
Argus subscribers who live at a dis
tance must pay up their subscriptions or
have their papers cut off. We love to
accommodate our friends, but the friends
should accommodate us once in a while,
just to make it more binding.
The Atlanta Journal deserves great
credit for utilizing Editor Carmack’s idea
by turning its paper over a day to the At
lanta ladies to run for the benefit of the
Exposition. It will make every woman in
Atlanta feel that she has a special interest
in both the Exposition and the Journal.
The appointment of Col. W. K. Moore
as United States Commissioner, with
beadquarters at Dalton, is very gratifying
to his fellow-townsmen. Col. Moore is
an eminent lawyer, of undoubted ability
and probity, and his conduct of the office
can but give perfect satisfaction.
The Argos has received fully a dozen
handsome calendars for 1895, all vieing
with each other to be pretty and orna
mental. The most useful one is a plain
calendar issued by the Insurance Com
pany of North America--without fancy
touches or adornment. How true to life
When we want sound sense, honest
friendship, true love, pure hearts and
able minds, we go to the plain, unassum
ing, sturdy, every-day man, not to those
whose worth has been vitiated by the
frills, furbelows and follies of the preten
tious world.
Editor Forrester, of the Richland
Gazette, certainly talks out in meeting
about “The Round Dance.” , Hear him :
“What do you think of round dancing?” was
the inquiry received by The Paper the other
day. The writing was evidently feminine.
Why, dear girl, a nice quiet hug in some se
cluded and shady corner is preferable in every
respect. Hugging by music is a snare and a de
lusion. Besides, when you take it that way
every other fellow who can ‘shake his feet' a
little can come in on the same terms. This is
from a masculine standpoint- It strikes The
Paper, little lady, that such nice gir's as yon
must be—if you are obliged to hug at all—would
much prefer the old-fashioned way to hugging
before an assemblage of people. The Paper
doesn’t consider a little scraping on a fiddle or a
little drumming on a piano as sufficient license
for a man to hug a lady.”
This hugging evidence ought to count,
for Brother Forrester is a young man,
and he has “tripped the light fantastic
toe” all over Dougherty and Sumter
counties.
Judge John C. Hart has called a
special term of Jasper superior court, on
January 21st, for the purpose of trying
to convict the parties who lynched a
negro by the name of Lee Lawrence, who
had been found guilty ol criminal assault.
The Governor says, if necessary, he will
ask the attorney general to assist the
solicitor general in the investigation and
prosecution. In onr opinion none of the
parties who took part in the lynching
will be found guilty of murder. It is one
thing to investigate such a matter, and
quite another to convict the partes.
There is an unwritten law in Georgia
that the man who makes a criminal
assault upon a woman must meet with a
speedy death—the only thing necessary
is, that the guilt of the party is beyond
all question.—Covington Enlerpise.
C’OTTON OK CORN.
From the official report of the United
States Department of Agriculture, just
issued, it is seen that tire total value of
the south’s cotton crop, 1893 94, was
$294,495,000, and the value of the south’s
coin crop in 1894 was $302,724,061, or
just $8,229,063 more than the value of
the cotton crop for 1893 94. These fig
ures show conclusively that cotton is no
longer “king/ in the south, and that the
south is beginning to take rank with the
leading sections of the globe as a food
producer.
From that same report some idea of
of the extent of the failure of
the western corn crop last year
can be had —that is, in the four
states of Nebraska, Kansas, lowa and
South Dakota. Nebraska’s corn crop for
1893 was 157,2C0,000 bushels, which was
a little less than the average crop for
three years, but in 1894 the total yield of
the whole state was only 13,855,000
bushels, or less than 9 per cent of an
average crop, showing a decrease of 91
per cent. South Dakota’s crop dropped
from 20,511,000, bushels in 1893, to 1,490-
000 bushels in 1894, or a decline of 93
per cent. In lowa, the great corn state
of the Union, which annually produces
from 250,000,000 to 350,000,000 bushels,
the yield in 1894 was only 81,340,000
bushels. Kansas, from a crop of 139,-
400,000 bushels in 1893, dropped to 41,-
700,000 bushels iu 1894.
Comparing the yield in these four
states for 1894 and 1893, we have:
1894. 1893.
Bushels. Bushels.
Nebraska 13 855 000 157 278 000
.South Dakota 1 490 000 20 511 000
Kansas 41 798 000 139 456 000
lowa 81 340 000 251 832 000
Totall3B 482 000 869 077 000
Total for four States, 1893 569 077 000
Total for four States, 1894138 482 000
Decrease in 1894 430 595 000
Estimated at forty-five cents a bushel,
the average value of the year’s crop for
the country, this decline in production
shows a loss to these states of nearly
$200,000,000.
Discussing these figures, the Manu
facturers’ Record says:
The force of the loss in Nebraska and South
Dakota may be appreciated by a supposition of
what it would mean toithe South should its main
staple—cotton—though corn is even more to
Nebraska than cotton is to the south—be cut
short, and a 9,000,000-bale crop be reduced to 9
per cent, or say, 800.000 bales, with no material
increase in price. Such a disaster in the south
can hardly be conceived of, for we cannot im
agine any weather conditions that would prove
so destructive from Virginia to Texas; but what
this would mean to the south is what the de
struction of its corn crop means to Nebraska.
The same drought and hot winds that destreved
its corn crop also destroyed its bay and vege
tables. The total value of its two main crops,
corn and wheat, was $11,180,000, while South Car
olina, for instance, with about the same popula
tion as Nebraska, raised 812.173,000 worth of corn,
though corn has been regarded as something of
a side issue with the farmers of that state. Geor
gia produced 35,100,000 bushels of corn, valued at
820,380,000. against 811,180.000 for the conbined
wheat and corn crop of Nebraska; and Alabama
raised 34,700,000 bushels of corn, worth 818,400,-
000. In striking contrast with this sad showing
for the northwest is the condition of the south.
From the official report of the United States
Agricultural Department, from which these fig
ures are taken, the Manufacturers’ Record has
compiled the following tables, showing the total
value and production of grain in the south in
1894:
Corn. Wheat. Oats
Bushels. Bushels. Bushels.
Maryland 13 268 234 7 313 201 2 015 923
Virginia.'.... 32 195 818 6 995 219 5 400 504
North Carolina.. 32 959 484 3 475 735 5 7.54 034
South Carolina.. 18 728 819 807 845 4 077 696
Georgia 35 143 735 1 627 413 7 527 276
Florida 5 214 044 643 926
Alabama 34 760 311 417 274 4 910 347
Louisiana 17 880 183 785 272
Texas 69 338 676 6 893 150 20 013 119
Arkansas 38 437 824 1 416 2.54 5 990 097
Tennessee 68 060 316 5 816 788 6 511 133
West Virginia.. 12 611 968 4 897 478 2 884 724
Kentucky 67 892 297 11 005 963 10 312 806
Total 482 252 060 50 707 020 78 675 951
VALUE.
States. Corn. Wheat. Oats.
Marylandß 7 134 117 $ 3 049 129 8 787 210
Virginia 15 132 053 3 917 339 1 998 186
No. Carolina 15 490 957 2 259 228 2 531 775
So.iCarolina 12 713 932 702 825 2 161 179
Georgia 20 383 366 1 236 834 3 838 911
Florida 3 701 971 392 795
Alabama. 18 422 965 325 474 2 504 277
Mississispi 17 606 294 30 503 869 074
Louisiana ... 11 085 713 369 078
Texas 38 829 659 3 722 301 7 805 116
Arkansas 18 06.5 777 778 940 2 396 039
Tennessee... 26 543 523 3 007 872 2 278 897
W. Virginia 7 188 822 2 889 887 1 125 042
Kentucky.... 29 872 611 5 502 982 3 712 610
Total $241 631 560 S2B 323 314 $32 769 189
rotal production of grain in South in
1894, bushels 611 635 031
Total value of grain prouduced in
South in 18945302 724 063
These figures will prove of great inter
est to the thoughtful farmer. It will tell
him that had the south, in 1894, fol
lowed its recent practice of raising all
cotton, and buying its corn and meat,
it would now be as bad off as Nebraska,
and there would have been a gen
et al famine all over the land.
It will tell him which it is best to raise
—corn or cotton.
We hope these figures will claim
thoughtful attention.
The Brooklyn strikers need some of
that Chicago medicine.
IMaßSuLl's IDIOCY.
The Douglasville New South says of
Bob Ingersoll’s visit to Atlanta :
“We notice that the Atlanta press is speaking
out against the people ot that citv going out to
hear Ingersoll lecture when he arrives. This is a
move in the right direction. The Christian re
ligion has been in existence for two thousand
years, and has been cherished by the wisest and
best men in every age and country, and it is
stronger today than it lias ever been before. We
hope when Ingersoll arrives in Atlanta that he
will be left to lecture to empty seats.”
Yes, while Bob Ingersoll’s infidelity is
enough to make his profane utterancesdis
tasteful to southern ears and his presence *
THE ARGUS: DALTON. GA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 26. 1895.
in'a southern city is a temporary blot upon
its name, the south has another weighty
reason for giving him the cold shout
der. It was Bob Ingersoll who once said:
“There never lived a man who ever owned a
slave that was not at heart a thief.”
And this insulting infidel has the ef
frontery to go among the very people he
has insulted, and expect the wives, sons,
daughters*and other descendants of those
he has termed “thieves” to pay their
money into his coffers to hear him revile
their God, ami blaspheme their Savior.
If Robert G. Ingersoll, the infidel
south-hater, expects to get an audience
in the south, he must believe the south
ern people to be fools and idiots.
WOMAN IN POLITICK.
The editor of the LaGrange Graphic
took occasion to remark, anent Miss
Helen Dortch’s appointment as assistant
state librarian:
This is the first woman who has ever received
an appointment from the governor of Georgia.
Most of the state papers have joined in congrat
ulating Miss Dortch upon her appointment.
Now, as far as the Graphic is concerned, it does
not share in this feeling of exultation. It is
sorry that the appointment was made, to tell the
truth about the matter. As far as Miss Dortch is
concerned, personally, we have ouly the highest
admiration and respect for this bright and
plucky little woman, who has won her wav iu
this selfish world to success. We do not doubt
for a moment but what she is well qualified for
the place. But somehow, it is with a feeling of
sadness that we see this innovation tn the old
state of Georgia. It is the entering wedge of
Georgia women into politics.
The Atlanta Journal made the remark:
“There is nothing in this innovation that
should shock the nerves of anybody except those
out-of-date sentimentalists who are opposed to
the employment of women in any practical
work. ”
To which the Graphic eloquently and
earnestly replies:
Now, the Journal is wrong about this. We are
not opposed to the employment of women iu
any practical work. It is a sad fact that many of
them are forced to engage in this, in order to
live. God forbid that we should close any of the
avenues of business to them. But we sincerely
and honestly oppose their mingling In the filth
of politics. The most of Georgia’s women—and
we honor them for it—don’t want the privilege
of the ballot. It is only a few foolish women
who are clamoring for it, and a few misguided
men who, out of excessive and assumed gal
lantry, are forcing upon the women of the state
something which the majority of them do not
want.
The Journal is doubtless correct in character
izing us as an “out-of-date sentimentalist.” But
we must confess that we love best the class of
women who have made glorious the past record
of the Southern people—those who wanted no
sphere but the home and no world to rule but
the heart. We must confess that the class of
women to which our mothersand grandmothers
belonged is the class of women to whom we
raise our hats with the most deferential hom
age. They were the glory ot the old-time south;
they are the giory of its present, and they will
be the glory of its future, if they last.
The Graphic is right. We all lexve the
sweet womanly woman best. But the
Graphic should not take the Journal too
seriously. You know tlrey are going to
have a woman suffrage convention in
Atlanta. ’ *
Fresh Oysters today. L, Buchholz.
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Farmer ismow the organ of the Georgia
Immigration and Investment bureau,
and as/hs general manager of the bureau,
ex-Go*vernor Northen will assume the
edito/iaL management of the magazine.
The is the best farm paper in
the south, and every North Georgia far
mer should take it. Call at The Argus
office for club rates.
—Clement must be a festive cuss when
he goes on a “razee.” Wilson says Clem
ent has been known to eat a whole pint
of peanuts when on one of his “tares.”
Clement had best lookout; .such extrava
gance may bankrupt his bright sheet.
—The Searight (Ala.) Beacon bobs up
serenely among our exchanges. Editor
Howell is giving his constituency a first
class paper, and they seem to appreciate
it.
—A Georgia editor voices The Argus’
sentiments, when he declares: “The
only politics we will know during 1895
will be the welfare of our county, town
and section. We are pulling for that.”
—Robert E. Edwards is now in charge
of the Douglasville New South, and
promises to give the people a good one.
Mr. Edwards is about the sixth man who
has wrestled with the people of Douglas
county during the past year, and we
trust is the right man in the right place.
—We have been eating regularly this
week. We invested a nickel in a blue
pencil, and used the pencil with which
to make big crqss marks. The receipts
therefrom have' been gratifying to our
“innards.”
—Graham Forrester, of, the Richland
Gazette, is a powerful knowing one for
a young man. He deciares that the ex
pression, “This is too, too much,” had
its origin with a man who had just been
presented with triplets. Will Graham
please inform us what he means by
“triplets.”
—Editor Glenn, of <he Cleveland
Progress, is still rejoicing that he did not
overeat himself Christinas. We do not
see why Glenn’s spiritshould be so proud.
An editor, if he wants to, can be proud
of starving nine days out of ten.
■ - The editor of the Madison Madi
sonian, it is said, called on his
a few nights since, and she played her
sweetest, for him on the piano. Having
finished, she asked him if she had drop
ped any notes. He replied by saying:
“Not as I knows on, but I’ll look under
the piany and see ”
—Tha Carroll County Populist is no
more, and the old reliable Jack Majors is
filling out its contracts with the good old
democratic Times. Two to one that Jack
converts most of them before their
subscriptions expire.
—The editor of the Stewart County
Hopper finds the battle of life a serious
one. Hesavs: “A family of four boys
and nine girls is no small affair —country
produce received on subscription at this
office.”
—Editor Walker, of the Acworth Post,
is prospering to such an extent that he
has had to buy a book of etiquette to learu
how to eat all the good things he is get
ting on subscription. He rises to
remark : “We are informed by a note on
table etiquette that ‘you should dip the
spoon from you in your soup plate, and
should drink the soup from the side of
the spoon next to you.’ Nnow that is
wondrous kind. Not necessary to get up *i
and walk around the spoon and drink I
from the other side. Slowly out surely
the rules of table etiquette are being
conformed to the convenience of the
guest.”
—Editor McKinney, of the Blue Ridge
Post, is undergoing a newspaper expe
rience that is somewhat discouraging to
the new beginner. He says: “Some of
our citizens right here in town don’t care
a continental whether their home news
paper sinks or swims.”
—The editor of the Cherokee Scout has
a level head on him. He says: “If a
man will pay the preacher and the ed
itor, the Lord will bless him, and don’t
you forget it.”
—Editor Brack, of the State of Dade
News, thinks that “since Editor Trox
Bankston got married he is making a de
cided kick against the unnecessary
amount of cloth used to make the sleeves
for a lady’s dress. When you get a fel
low interested in a subject, you may ex
pect to hear from him.” Yes; touch a
fellow’s pocket-book and hear him yowl.
You can sell your CORN to J. F.
Robertson, corner of Gordon and
Hamilton streets, Dalton, Ga.